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Chipre, la avanzadilla europea en el convulso Oriente Próximo bajo presión tras el ataque con dron
El 1 de marzo, un dron Shahed de fabricación iraní impactó en la base aérea británica de Akrotiri, en Chipre, acercando de forma inesperada la guerra de Oriente Próximo a territorio europeo.
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El 1 de marzo, un dron Shahed de fabricación iraní impactó en la base aérea británica de Akrotiri, en Chipre, acercando de forma inesperada la guerra de Oriente Próximo a territorio europeo.
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00:02La noche de la noche, un drone se golpeó a Arif Akrotiri, en Cyprus.
00:08Esta es la base de Akrotiri británica de Akrotiri, en el centro de la ciudad de Cyprus,
00:12se golpeó a un drone de Shahed en la noche de 1 de marzo de marzo.
00:18Esta guerra fue un punto de turno, llevando la guerra de la guerra de la mitad de la Europa a
00:23la puerta de la parte de la Europa.
00:24Cuando Chypre se golpeó, es Europa que se golpeó.
00:28La Cipres se abre ahora como una línea estratégica en un conflicto de abierta y impredible.
00:36Fue entre los poderes globales, las tensiones regionales y su propia división de décadas de décadas,
00:42la isla se convierte en una línea geopolítica crítica.
00:46¿Qué significa vivir en la frontera de Europa en un momento de guerra?
00:50Eso es lo que veremos en este episodio de Euronews Investigates.
01:03La dos bases británicos en Cyprus son más que las líneas en un mapa.
01:07Estas bases soberanicas británicas son no solo rodean por las escuelas protegidas,
01:12sino también por ciudades donde los habitantes han sido usados a la constante ropa de jets,
01:19patrullos internacionales y la realidad de vivir en el edad de una región volatilada.
01:25La posición de la isla esencial es crucial.
01:27Aún 100 kilómetros de Syrión, 180 kilómetros de Lebanon y más de 200 kilómetros de Israel.
01:35Irán es 1,000 kilómetros de distancia.
01:39Estoy entrando la área británica soberana de Acrotiri.
01:42Lo que hay que saber es que el territorio soberana británico es mucho más grande que el perimetro de la
01:48base.
01:49Están estrellando nueve comunidades, cerca de alrededor de 40,000 personas.
01:56Acrotiri es el principal ciudadano al lado de la base y con una fuerte conexión con la base.
02:02Cerca de un terzo de sus habitantes trabaja allí, explicó el deputado mayor.
02:06Este es el perifragmento de la región y aquí es el acrotiri.
02:14Aquí quedaron cerca de 1,240 personas.
02:18Tres horas después de la tarde, escuché un tronco, escuché un tronco, escuché un sirenes.
02:24Empecé a hablar con los ciudadanos de la democracia.
02:28Me llamaron a la asciencia de la base y nos informaron que un drone se cayó dentro de las bases.
02:39El orden de evacuación fue entregado el siguiente día y duró por 10 días.
02:44Aún 1,000 personas fueron evacuadas.
02:47Están principalmente tomados por los hermanos, con algunos en un monasterio en un monasterio y en hoteles.
02:54¿Te sientes seguro?
03:01No sé si estoy listo para responder esto.
03:06Pero creo que con las amenazas que hay alrededor de nosotros, es muy difícil de despedir a la base.
03:17Cipres, which currently holds the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union,
03:23is not a NATO member and relies on allies for its defense.
03:27The UK has allowed the US to use its bases in the country for defensive operations.
03:33After the drone attack, France, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands deployed naval assets.
03:39Greece also sent military support.
03:43A month later, when I visited, the drone attack seemed almost forgotten.
03:48There were no warships in sight and fewer warplanes in the sky.
03:53The war in the Middle East and the drone attack became something people don't want to talk about.
04:09What officials call an isolated incident, revealed some deficiencies.
04:15As the mayor of Curion explains, the Republic of Cyprus has no authority to evacuate
04:20or take any civil safety measures in almost 60% of his municipality, including Akrotiri.
04:28As it's part of the sovereign base areas administered by Britain.
04:33I believe what the attack showed was that nobody was ready,
04:38especially the sovereign bases.
04:40There are no contingency plans and evacuation plans in the SBA.
04:44What is the general feeling about these bases?
04:48We believe that things should start to change
04:54and actually get a clear sense on whose authorities to do what,
05:00especially with regards to the civil defence issue.
05:06I'm the only mayor in Cyprus that has to deal with two different legislations
05:10and basically two different governments.
05:13But the attack also exposed a deeper controversy.
05:17Would you say these British bases are a threat?
05:21After the incident last month, people are starting to change their mind
05:28and feeling that having a base right next to us
05:33and getting that gets involved so much in the Middle East crisis
05:39that's happening over and over again,
05:41it's becoming a threat to the country.
05:45The two British bases of Akrotiri and Ekelia cover around 200 square kilometres,
05:52about 3% of Cyprus' territory.
05:55They were retained when Cyprus gained independence from Britain in 1960.
06:01The right-wing Cypriot government has raised questions
06:05about the future of the bases after the drone strike,
06:08with the issue remaining a long-standing source of political friction.
06:13Actress, TV presenter and activist Melanie Stelio
06:16is among public figures who see the British bases as a legacy of colonialism.
06:21She is speaking out ahead of the May parliamentary elections,
06:25where she is a candidate for the left-wing Akkel Alliance.
06:29Over 56% of the population of Cyprus don't want the bases to be here anymore.
06:35We're not sending our soldiers there,
06:37but we're giving Cyprus as a permanent aircraft carrier
06:41for the United States of America and any other power that wants to use us,
06:46including the bases, including RAF Akrotiri.
06:50We're enabling them, we're giving them our facilities to bomb other countries.
06:56So how is that exactly creating peace?
07:00The Cypriot ministers of defence and foreign affairs declined my request to comment
07:05on the future of the bases and on key geopolitical issues.
07:09The focus instead appears to be on reassurance with the economy,
07:14especially tourism, as a priority.
07:17This key sector, which accounts for around 12% of GDP,
07:22is very vulnerable to external shocks like conflict.
07:25Industry leaders say the response to the drone attack was excessive.
07:31And justly so, it has been created a big noise out of the incident.
07:40It has been augmented as a newsworthy event, which was not so.
07:46It was one remote incident, and there was an overreaction from all over the world
07:51that Cyprus is in a war zone, which, as you can see yourself,
07:57Cyprus remains a very peaceful, safe and friendly destination.
08:02There are also several countries that have issued heightened warnings for visiting Cyprus.
08:10We found them overreacting and unjust.
08:15Are they overreacting or are we minimising?
08:19Cyprus is open and safe, no matter if the war continues.
08:26US and Israeli first strikes on Iran on February 28th
08:30hit just as the tourism season in Cyprus was reopening after winter,
08:34and hotel bookings fell by nearly 40% in March.
08:38Cyprus, Deputy Minister of Tourism, says the impact will ultimately depend
08:43on how long the conflict lasts.
08:46If the conflict ends tomorrow, I believe that at the end of the day
08:50we're going to have a very similar performance to the performance of the year before.
08:55If the conflict ends at the end of the year, for example,
09:00definitely we will observe a reduction in the total number of tourist arrivals,
09:04but that will take place for every single country in the Mediterranean zone,
09:10especially for those located in the Eastern Mediterranean.
09:14Cyprus is not part of the conflict, but it's very close to an unpredictable war.
09:20I disagree with you, we are not so close, we are just belonging on the map.
09:27Definitely we are thousands of kilometres away from the conflict zone.
09:31We are not part of the problem.
09:33Cyprus was always acting as a pillar of peace and stability in the area of Eastern Mediterranean.
09:42But is the Middle East a war altering the balance on the island?
09:47Divided since Turkey's 1974 invasion, triggered by a Greek-backed coup pushing for union with Greece,
09:54the island remains split between the internationally recognised EU member Republic of Cyprus in the south
10:01and the self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, recognised only by Turkey.
10:07A 180-kilometre-long UN buffer zone, the Green Line separates the two.
10:15Nicosia is considered the last divided capital in the world,
10:19with the Ledra Street checkpoint cutting through its centre.
10:32Northern Cyprus is politically dependent on Turkey, a key player in the Middle East crisis.
10:38After EU countries deployed military assets in the south,
10:42Ankara responded by sending F-16 fighter jets to the north, sparking controversy.
10:49I raised this issue with the self-declared Turkish Cypriot administration.
10:54Under the gaze of Ataturk, the father of modern Turkey,
10:58I sat down with a hard-line nationalist foreign minister.
11:01Even his title doesn't officially exist, and it felt like stepping into a 3D history book.
11:08Why did you receive these several F-16?
11:11To show to the world and to the Greek Cypriots
11:14that Turkish Cypriots enjoy the support and security of the motherland, Turkey.
11:18We are not going to allow the balance,
11:22the military balance established on the island since 1974, to be changed.
11:27If the Greek Cypriots do anything to upset this military balance on the island,
11:32then it is our right and Turkey's right to make sure that this balance is restored.
11:39Around the 40,000 Turkish troops are stationed in northern Cyprus.
11:44The Greek Cypriot side wants them withdrawn,
11:47but the Turkish Cypriot side insists they guarantee protection until a peace settlement is reached.
11:52Former negotiations have been stalled since 2017.
11:58So, is this conflict widening the gap between the north and the south?
12:04Obviously, the Turkish Cypriot people, they are becoming more aware
12:09that there is no well-meaning policies of the Greek Cypriots
12:13that respect Turkish Cypriot rights, Turkish Cypriot entity, Turkish Cypriot sovereignty.
12:23Nationalists still hold a majority in the so-called parliament,
12:27but their views are losing consensus
12:29and a left-wing opposition leader won the October 2025 presidential election.
12:35Even so, analysts say the current regional crisis
12:39could make reunification less likely anytime soon.
12:46The most obvious outcome would be a deepening of the separation
12:50because people will become entrenched in their own sides.
12:54So, it's unlikely that people would leap to the other side as a result of the conflict
13:02unless there was something pushing them there.
13:04So, unless the UN steps in and says,
13:07OK, you know, helping to solve the Cyprus conflict could help us solve other regional issues,
13:13but I have a feeling that the UN is rather distracted at the moment
13:17and probably is not going to be interested enough to take up that opportunity.
13:24Besides the military build-up and geopolitics,
13:27the island is also shaped by communities that fled conflicts.
13:31Many Israelis and Lebanese have relocated here in search of peace and stability.
13:36In Limassol, I met an Israeli-Jewish restaurant owner.
13:40He arrived in 2022 fleeing violence one year before the Hamas terrorist attacks,
13:46a traumatic event that prompted many more Israelis to seek refuge here.
13:51He complained about graffiti that appeared near his business.
13:55It was a terrorist attack next to us, so we fled to Cyprus.
14:00It's close to home and it feels like Israel.
14:03Do you want to go back?
14:06No, no.
14:07Why?
14:08There is no stress here.
14:10Everything here is siga-siga.
14:12What is it, siga-siga?
14:13Slowly, slowly.
14:15OK.
14:16So, what do you think about what's happening in the Middle East at the moment?
14:21We are witnesses to history.
14:23The Jewish nation is saving the world from the terror regime in Iran, and with God help, we will finish
14:31them, and the world will be a better place.
15:03What about the international laws?
15:04Well, we are just finishing it.
15:08Like this restaurant owner, a great majority of Israeli Jews, 78%, continue to support the month-long war on Iran
15:17and Lebanon, according to recent polls.
15:20In Israel, only a minority are opposed to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the war.
15:30Avishai, a retired professor of political science, is among them.
15:34He lived and taught in Cyprus for 10 years and now visits as a tourist.
15:41My position is against the government and against the war.
15:46The children in Gaza, having been through what they've been in the last two years, I can't see them growing
15:52up without hatred.
15:55I see the children growing up in Israel with their fears, with the prospect of serving in wars and wars
16:04and wars for the rest of their lives.
16:06I was six when Israel was founded, and my sixth, when I went to first year in school, we were
16:17in shelters and in bombs, and I'm now 85, and I'm in shelters and bombs.
16:23How do you feel about the fact that your position is still a minority in Israel?
16:30The minority is not always a minority, and there is a hope for change.
16:39At the time of editing my report, in mid-April, more than 2,000 people had been killed in Lebanon.
16:47What are numbers to the wider public can be family or friends to the Lebanese diaspora.
16:53In Cyprus, many of the 20,000 people of Lebanese descent watch the news with horror and worry.
16:59Some are still trying to put their lives back together and keep the pain at bay.
17:06I grew up in Lebanon.
17:07Besides the war, I had a great childhood, and the beauty of Lebanon is inside me.
17:17It's my country, it's my people, and wherever I go, it stays with me.
17:25The Lebanese people are resilient, but now, if you ask any Lebanese, they don't want to be resilient anymore.
17:32They are tired. We are all tired.
17:42Over 3 million people have been displaced in Iran, and another 1 million within Lebanon, since the war began.
17:49Humanitarian agencies warn of a potential refugee crisis.
17:53In Cyprus, the authorities say they remain vigilant, despite the country not having seen large waves of refugees so far.
18:00The Cypriot Migration Minister believes the EU's new Pact on Migration and Asylum should help avoid a repeat of the
18:092015 crisis,
18:10when the Syrian civil war caused the largest refugee movement in Europe since World War II.
18:17Things have changed since the last refugee crisis in 2015.
18:22We've got more robust legislation, and we believe that we're more ready now to deal with the new refugee crisis.
18:32We are getting ready for the implementation of the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum in June.
18:36It's also been pretty controversial.
18:38So are you going to support more people coming towards Cyprus, or less people?
18:43So the new legislation gives us an opportunity to perform stricter controls at the borders, expedite our asylum procedures,
18:55and improve our return procedures as well.
19:00So it's a general, comprehensive, cohesive legal framework that will enable us to improve our procedures.
19:09If you are going to have hundreds of thousands of people coming from Lebanon or Iran, what's going to happen?
19:16We have to examine, on an individualised basis, each application, of course,
19:21in order to ascertain whether these individuals are really in danger.
19:28Everyday life in Cyprus goes on, as it almost always has, relaxed.
19:33The Middle East war washed from afar, as if not looking to directly, might keep it at bay.
19:41I left Cyprus feeling the island is already being shaped by the war,
19:46more than people are aware of, and the authorities are prepared to admit.
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